Our Future By Design Community Forum

Evaluations/Comments

September 29, 2005

• How wonderful it would be to have this kind of collaboration for non-profits COUNTY-wide!
• To be improved, these conversations in person, in open forum were needed earlier.  Comments now suggest major changes – many new ideas.
• Welcome speakers – great.  Mt. Agamenticus film – great.
• Went well – great participation/discussion at tables.
• Excellent discussion of issues affecting KEYS group in education
• Good variety of input from educators, arts, environment, family advocates
• Went well.  Very diverse crowd.  Love the café format.
• Could go better.  Larger space – different/expansive questions.
• Arts/Child & Family/Youth were not really talked about in the opening.  Table attendance was low.
• More people to the table.  More café conversations – being at every table would be great.
• Well done.  Interactive table switching was great idea.
• Great morning.  Many ideas.
• Meeting was very helpful in sharing ideas and expanding interests in more regional than strictly local issues.
• Broader participation from municipal community.  Well coordinated morning.  Thanks!
• Too little closure.  I would add lunch.  After lunch a more in depth discussion of the table you were most passionate about.
• Even more discussion.  Question existing ideas.  New ideas are welcome.
• More time to talk and try to get to all goals on the sheet.  We tended to get bogged down on one item.
• Great format.  Not enough time per topic.  All Day!
• Would like to what my next steps could be to further this work.
• Well-planned morning.  Thank you for this.
• Wish we could bring the “power brokers”/decision makers to the table!
• Went well!  Getting conversations going.  Well organized.  Do differently – don’t know – I thought it went well.
• Would like to have networking time after not before the program so we could talk with those we met.  Who all was represented?  Overall good program.
• Great and rare opportunity to gather together to have such broad yet focused discussions.
• Best thing:  meeting new people, hearing a clear description of issues.  Needs improvement:  Too much housekeeping and “thank you” to start.
• Hard for group continuity when participants leave earlier than the actual group’s time was.  Great networking – it’s amazing how much is still necessary.
• The “tablecloths” worked well.  Would have liked hearing how some of the “goals” related to the common themes.  For example, the communication theme.  Which goals, from which groups had been proposed to “solve” the communication theme?
• Great!  Needed more rounds!